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Past Additions -- 2000

3 January 2000

Locomotives in local rail yards in December 1998, and a few cars. Union Pacific locomotives in Proviso yard. IHB and WC locomotives in Norpaul yard. IMRL locomotives at Bensenville (Illinois) yard.

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Union Pacific 1734 GM EMD GP15AC diesel-electric locomotive running lite in the locomotive yard just east of the Locomotive Maintenance Facility in the Proviso (Melrose Park, Illinois) rail yard.

UP 1734, UP, GM EMD GP15AC, UP locomotives, Locomotives, photographed on 19 December 1998 at Proviso locomotive yard by Harold A. Driscoll using a Sony Mavica MVC-FD7 digital camera [railfan/1998/12/98c19c07.jpg] NEW 3 January 2000

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UP 1734 was built in December 1982, GM EMD GP15AC, builder number 827016-20, Missouri Pacific 1734, to UP number on 8 May 1989. Not equipped with dynamic braking. [courtesy of Union Pacific Locomotive Directory, Don Strack, Withers Publishing, ISBN 1-881411-16-8, 1998]

UP 1734: yard switcher, EMD GP15-1, 1,500 hp. [courtesy of Roster of UPRR Locomotive Ownership, January 1, 1999.]

Equipment characteristics of UP 1734: AAR car type D112 (locomotive), external dimensions (length 54' 11", width 10' 4", height 15' 0"). [courtesy of BNSF Equiptment Characteristics, January 2000]

Chicago Rail Photographs collection updated 13 March 2024 at 23:04. Photographs and text copyright © 1998-2000 Harold A. Driscoll, All Rights Reserved. Email address is provided exclusively for personal contact, but emphatically not for use for SPAM net.abuse.